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Reassessing sixteenth and seventeenth century written accounts of hurricanes in the North Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea

open access: yesWeather, EarlyView.
Abstract While the North Atlantic’s five‐century hurricane history is among the most complete globally, the earliest centuries are poorly documented in the written record. This study reassesses a subset of sixteenth to seventeenth‐century tropical cyclones (TCs) through a systematic review of archival evidence, mainly from Spain’s colonial archive, the
William Gomez Pretel, Michael Chenoweth
wiley   +1 more source

Hydrodynamics of air and oil–water dispersion/emulsion in horizontal pipe flow with low oil percentage at low fluid velocity

open access: yesCogent Engineering, 2018
The objective of this paper is to investigate the flow regimes of three phase flow, emerged to be as two phase flow. These two phases are air phase and oil dispersed in water phase, in other words the latter phase can be termed as water–oil emulsion ...
Laura Edwards   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Parasites alter host community structure in a natural experiment

open access: yesJournal of Animal Ecology, EarlyView.
Parasites can alter host communities in complex ways, but empirical data from natural systems are rare. This study decomposes the effects of an invasive parasite on natural communities of fish in Trinidad, revealing the direct, indirect, and context dependence of the invasion on host demographic rates and community structure.
Tomos Potter   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Political struggle and West Indies cricket

open access: yesNWIG, 1996
[First paragraph] An Area of Conquest: Popular Democracy and West Indies Cricket Supremacy. HILARY McD BECKLES (ed.). Kingston: Ian Randle, 1995. xviii + 154 pp. (Paper n.p.) Liberation Cricket: West Indies Cricket Culture.
Jay R. Mandle, Joan D. Mandle
doaj  

The Role of the Economy, Security and Party Leader Acceptance in Forecasting the 2020 General Election in Jamaica

open access: yesRevista Latinoamericana de Opinión Pública, 2022
Three econometric models were built between January and March 2020 to predict the September 3, 2020 General Election in Jamaica. These are the economics and security model (model1), the economics and security model with JLP leader acceptance (model 2 ...
Christopher A. D. Charles   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Dynastinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) of the Cayman Islands (West Indies), with descriptions of Tomarus adoceteus, new species (Pentodontini) and Caymania nitidissima, new genus and species (Phileurini) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
The five genera and eight species of dynastine scarabs occurring in the Cayman Islands in the West Indies are reviewed. Two new, endemic species are described from Little Cayman, with supporting illustrations: Tomarus adoceteus Ratcliffe and Cave ...
Cave, Ronald D., Ratcliffe, Brett C.
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Leaf Beetles of the Cayman Islands (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Data are presented for 29 chrysomelid species (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) occurring in the Cayman Islands, West Indies, 26 of these not having been reported from these islands previously.
Belo Neto, Luiz A.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

A longitudinal study on enteropathogenic infections of livestock in Trinidad

open access: yesRevista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, 2001
A longitudinal study was conducted on selected livestock farms to determine the prevalence of enteropathogens in diarrhoeic and non-diarrhoeic animals.
A.A. Adesiyun   +6 more
doaj  

Mountain bananas from the french west indies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Banana production is a key economic resource in the French West Indies. It is essential that growers in this region enhance their sales by proposing new products-such as mountain bananas-in response to high market competition from other exporting regions
Brat, Pierre   +2 more
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